Oatlands

History looms large in Oatlands, the town with Australia’s largest collection of sandstone Georgian buildings.
There are 150 of them, mostly convict-built, including 87 along the main street. Step behind the facades to find antique shops, cafés and bars.

There’s further architectural beauty at St Paul’s Catholic Church, which was designed by Augustus Pugin, the English architect who created Big Ben

The most prominent building in town is Callington Mill, Australia’s third-oldest windmill (1837) and now the centrepiece of the Callington Mill Distillery.

Oatlands developed around a military precinct in the late 1820s, and its impressive courthouse was the only Supreme Court in regional Tasmania, which meant it could deliver death sentences. Eighteen convicts were executed inside the town’s large gaol, and the walls and archway are still standing.

Callington Mill, Australia’s third-oldest windmill

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